early adopters: Older Teens' conceptions of their significant social media practices
by April Heaney, LeaRN Director
May 7, 2025 - In 2007, the first generation of iPhone entered the market, around
the time first-year college students in 2021 were starting kindergarten. When these
students stepped into middle school, not only had iPhones burgeoned (Apple sold more
than 100 million phones in the first 4 years), but Instagram, Pinterest, SnapChat,
and Tinder were newly released and even more dramatically altering the landscape of
how people interact with each other and ideas online.
Changing the narrative of college stop-out
By April Heaney, LeaRN Director
April 28, 2021 - In addition to shifting our narrative to struggling students (without changing our academic expectations), we can help bring in stories of successful non-traditional paths to graduating from college. Read More from Early College Literacy
Stories Told and Retold: Narrating First-Gen MEntorship at the University of Wyoming
By Seth Swanner, Former First Gen Scholars Program Director
April 7, 2021 - Through expanded mentoring and continued exploration of important first-generation stories, we hope to help UW students feel a sense of belonging, both in the stories they trade with their mentors and in the ways they see themselves as vibrant anthologies of stories told and retold.
